Political Economy of World-Systems 2002
Conference

The IROWS PEWS02 conference
addressed the problems of conceptualizing and assessing hegemonic rise and decline in
the modern world-system, especially comparing the current era with the earlier
Dutch and British hegemonies. In addition, several sessions will be devoted
to the study of hegemony in the premodern
world-systems. There are sessions on global elites, transnational indigenism,
hegemony and environment, global networks, globalization and labor, terrorism
and hegemony, resistance, and East/West issues.

Immanuel Wallerstein
presented the keynote address entitled “U.S. Hegemonic Decline?”
at 8:30 am on Friday, May 3 in the University Auditorium. A report on the
highlights of the conference is here.